prejudices, actually I read it ...
... but somehow I get it not to set times to write something about it. Today I am once snapped together.
have in recent weeks, I read "The Stand" by Stephen King. Somehow I have that book next time leave and that although it is one of the largest and most successful of his books. Rightly, I must say in retrospect.
I must say that I have been almost nine months only read Stephen King. This is not really a coincidence, but in summer last year I've started again with the Dark Tower series, and these 7 volumes have occupied me for now. Then I made myself read all the Tower-related books by King, because there are so few.
was only my "Salem", Kings of famous horror novel. I liked it and the vampire in the book, Barlow added, was her neatly made.
has particularly interested me, of course, Father Callahan, the dark tower also plays a major role. You can see all the sings of how many years separate "Salem" and the dark tower, because you could do recognize that it is the same character in both books, but especially in "Salem" Father Callahan was somehow one-dimensional .
In "The Stand" that was different and just Deshlab the book was so great for me.
A key character from the dark tower is also known as Walter Randall Flagg aka the black man His appearance goes through the whole tower saga. He embodies evil, but he's not such a thing as the devil, only his right hand, you could say.
In "The Stand" Flagg is also one of the main characters and here the picture was perfect. I immediately recognized him again. The clothes, talking his way, but especially the schlemische grin. This bastard always has a cheeky grin on his lips and unsettling his entire environment ... hard to describe ... He is a great villain.
If one reads in King's books the blurb, it sounds ever so spectacular. If I had the same text read by another author, I would probably put away the book in the store again.
disease eradicated from the human race .... * Yawn * .... Battle of Good vs. Evil .... * Sigh * .... blablabla. But then I am always surprised that King makes something great out of it.
I just read King's "The Life and Writing". A mixture of autobiography and guide to writing fiction. In particular, the biographical parts I really liked. He is simply appealing to me: o)
is clear in many places that King handles many experiences in his novels. In many places, I thought: Wait, you've already read it!
Just a note to the end: What about the nagging mother-to-be, the emersion of King again and again. It seems funny to me slowly. Many books come from very terrible mothers who make life hell for their daughters ....
- Salem: The Mother of Susan
- The Dark Tower: The aunt of Susan (ok, only ne aunt, but the guardian ... and he's named Susan or Susannah)
- The Stand: The mother of Franny Goldsmith (which has been the worst mother I would have turned around their neck, the King has withered but they can also die,..) were
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